It’s such a wide topic, unless you accept the Trump position which is unless they’re white Christian Nationalists they should be discouraged from coming, they’re all “vermin” (where have we heard THAT before? Maybe you, Ghost of Adolf?), “poisoning the blood” (Are you still listening?), “Criminals,” “Killers,” and “Rapists.”
    Whew!
    He’s such a bloated bag of hatred, racism and assumed superiority.
    On the bright side he has yet to order the Auschwitz ovens to be shipped here.
    YET.
    On the more dimwit side he sure is pro shipping white nationalists here. I resisted “Christians,” because despite claims they don’t follow Jesus.
    The hatred is so strong he has had his now reformulated into his own personal Gestapo/SS and silvershirts, called “ICE,” come into communities with pols he hates and drag people out of houses, shot in the back 10 times, bullet though the head where ab agent stood where no law enforcement person is supposed to stand. And the adm is literally pouring buckets of money into ICE and new hires.
    How many of these new hires participated in 1/6? Were told they need to pay no attention to civil rights? How many beat cops, sprayed them in the eyes with pepper spray? Raped now pregnant girls in their ICE camps? How may are now part of Donald’s ICE Gestapo?
    GET RID OF THE DAMN MASKS.
    No one, I repeat NO ONE, seems interested in SOLVING what has been a long standing problem: undocumented immigration…
    To start with: THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN “OPEN BORDERS,” unless you list Ronald Reagan’s suggest it, but actually had some reasonable solutions. I am about to suggest a better solution.
    The main reason we have the undocumented is conditions at the border. Coyotes bring them (Forget that old canard about “caravans” Republicans used to use.) and basically most dumped them. On the border there are violent gangs that rob, rape and murder whole families as well as individuals. No surprise they get over the border any way they can rather than run into the gangs.
    Sure, some of the gang members cross. Sure there are violent criminals: almost all from the gangs and stay close and move back over to avoid getting caught. But framing them all that way like Donnie does is, what is his favorite vehicle of communication? Oh, yeah, politically driven, cruel, lies. We may be being led by the most evil man in a century or more, competition for Joseph McCarthy who, while hunting commies with accusations, was cuddling up to known fascists, helping them gain more power and influence.
    Having sanctuary cities at this stage doesn’t seem to be working, how about rather large buildings on both sides of the border. Mexico do theirs, we do ours. It sure as hell could be more effective than that UNFINISHED wall his royal orangeness told us was done. We might even get Mexico to pay for this solution. Must be a pain in the ass for them too.
    These buildings would be where potential immigrants stay while case workers see if they’re a good fit. They get BASIC meals, basic places to sleep: basic accommodations.
    If we redirected funds there it sure as hell would be less expensive than this billion dollar boondoggle.
    And the real dangerous ones could be weeded out with a reformed and repurposed ICE. More than likely they would ignore such open doors and try to cross anyway.
    Now we’ve weeded out the worst of the worst.
    Oh, and employers who advertise for them also help fund or go to prison in a very public and humiliating way. Whatever laws we need to make. I think ICE could be redeployed THAT way.
    One downside: our president would probably be one of the first arrests and convictions, especially with his tendency not to pay.
    Wait, isn’t that an UPSIDE???????

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